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House Republicans plan to attach six years of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program and delays of three Affordable Care Act taxes to the continuing resolution that must pass by Friday to avert a federal government shut-down, according to GOP lawmakers leaving a conference meeting Tuesday night.

Congress on Thursday (Dec. 21) passed temporary government-spending legislation that funds until March 31 the Children’s Health Insurance Program, community health centers, National Health Service Corps, graduate medical education and the Special Diabetes Program, but funding for several other health care programs were left out of the bill.

Lawmakers' handling of disaster-relief legislation will set the tone for how, or whether, they handle other urgent legislation, such as renewing funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health centers, and President Donald Trump complicated that calculation on Wednesday when he sided with Democrats on combining disaster relief with a three-month deal on lifting the debt limit and funding the government.

A Senate Appropriations subcommittee approved a fiscal year 2018 HHS funding bill on Wednesday (Sept 6) that includes $79.4 billion in discretionary funding for the department -- a $1.7 billion increase from 2017, with large funding increases for the National Institutes of Health and opioid abuse treatment, but no new funding for implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

As Senate Republicans pivot from health care overhaul bills to individual market stabilization for 2018, some industry taxes that would have been eliminated in the Senate GOP’s failed Better Care Reconciliation Act could be repealed or further delayed through upcoming must-pass bills on the Children's Health Insurance Program funding, government funding and debt ceiling increase, an industry source said Wednesday (Aug. 2).

The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously advanced a fiscal 2018 FDA funding bill out of committee Thursday (July 20) that adds $1 million in discretionary funding for FDA over the fiscal 2017 enacted level, totaling $2.8 billion, and adds $60 million in additional funding for the agency to implement the 21st Century Cures Act.

The House Appropriations Labor, HHS spending bill would gut CMS funding for the health insurance exchanges, prohibit funding for the the Affordable Care Act “navigators” and bar the agency from collecting user fees from qualified health plans that the agency uses to fund the federally-facilitated marketplace (FFM).

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a fiscal 2018 FDA funding bill to the floor Wednesday (July 12) by voice vote, maintaining $2.8 billion in discretionary funding for the agency and adding $60 million to implement the 21st Century Cures Act.

The full House Appropriations Committee is set to mark up an FDA fiscal 2018 spending bill Wednesday morning. The draft bill keep FDA funding at current levels by appropriating $2.8 billion in discretionary funding as well as $60 million to implement the 21st Century Cures Act.

Despite concerns voiced by lawmakers Wednesday (June 28) morning on a number of topics ranging from compounding to laboratory developed test regulations, House agriculture subcommittee appropriators voted unanimously to pass the fiscal 2018 FDA funding bill to the full committee.

House appropriators are proposing to fund FDA at the same level in fiscal 2018 as the agency received this year, rejecting President Donald Trump's call to cut the agency's budget and ask industry to pay more in user fees.

HHS will be able to transfer funds to FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence thanks to language included in the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2018 agriculture appropriations billreleased Tuesday (June 27).

A group of Senate Democrats and two Independents are urging their chamber's Appropriations HHS subcommittee to fund the State Health Insurance Assistance Program at the fiscal 2016 level after the most recent fiscal 2017 spending agreement cut $5 million from the program and President Donald Trump seeks to eliminate discretionary funding for the effort in fiscal 2018.

The Trump administration is requesting $1.7 billion for activities related to the federally facilitated exchanges, including about $1.2 billion from user fees and $471 billion in discretionary funding -- or about $310 million less than 2017 levels, according to CMS' fiscal 2018 budget justification.